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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205730711" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Alex Gaynor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205730711">(Aug 02 2020 at 14:59)</a>:</h4>
<p>Curious question -- how much engineering effort was involved in setting up the self-hosted runners for the aarch64 GHA builders?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745061" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Pietro Albini <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745061">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:32)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention" data-user-id="130046">@Alex Gaynor</span> around the equivalent of one week full time</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745071" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Pietro Albini <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745071">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:33)</a>:</h4>
<p>and one or two days spent fighting qemu</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745077" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Pietro Albini <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745077">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:33)</a>:</h4>
<p>(then I just gave up on fixing some of the bugs there)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745080" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Alex Gaynor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745080">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:33)</a>:</h4>
<p><span aria-label="+1" class="emoji emoji-1f44d" role="img" title="+1">:+1:</span> they're running a dedicated instance, right, not some sort of AWS scaling thing, right?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745087" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Pietro Albini <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745087">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:33)</a>:</h4>
<p>yep</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745127" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Pietro Albini <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745127">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:34)</a>:</h4>
<p>we don't really need any scaling, we're only running that job 24/7</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745135" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Pietro Albini <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745135">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:34)</a>:</h4>
<p>so it's just simpler to put the VM in an auto-restarting systemd job</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA%20aarch64/near/205745137" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Alex Gaynor <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/242791-t-infra/topic/GHA.20aarch64.html#205745137">(Aug 02 2020 at 21:34)</a>:</h4>
<p><span aria-label="+1" class="emoji emoji-1f44d" role="img" title="+1">:+1:</span> thanks.</p>



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